I'm not sure if we will change this. The cursor is normally drawn by the host, not the guest. To make it drawn by the guest (and to include the mouse cursor into the video), disable the mouse integration.

I've done a ton of things:

Try disable mouse integration from the bottom menu - does not really matter, mouse integration icon gets grey when out of the VM window, and gets activated again anyway when I click in the VM guest window so it is focused

Tried installing Guest Additions from CD after booting the live CD image, vs not installing Guest Additions -> neither works

Via https://askubuntu.com/questions/1156593/ -> In "VirtualBox > Settings > Display" for the guest, tried for "Graphics Controller" both VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA - no change, mouse pointer still not on video capture

Does anyone have any ideas, on how can I get the mouse pointer captured on a VirtualBox video recording of Ubuntu 18.04 live CD guest?Edit: some more details:

First, to enable bidirectional clipboard, you need Guest additions - here is a relatively easy way to install, via:

sdaau wrote:So, I hope it is OK for this post to hang for a day, so I can repost the complete post...

Just copy paste the whole thing here! I don't want to go hunting on 3rd party sites, I want to have the whole story in front of me as a complete, coherent story...

Do NOT send me Personal Messages (PMs) for troubleshooting, they are simply deleted.Do NOT reply with the "QUOTE" button, please use the "POST REPLY", at the bottom of the form.If you obfuscate any information requested, I will obfuscate my response. These are virtual UUIDs, not real ones.

socratis wrote:Just copy paste the whole thing here! I don't want to go hunting on 3rd party sites, I want to have the whole story in front of me as a complete, coherent story...

I wouldn't want to go hunting on 3rd party sites either Which is why, the first thing I did, was to paste that post here - however, as you can see in the edited OP, it is full of URLs for reference - and I thought they'd be important to keep, because maybe someone more knowledgeable could recognize them and let me know that (maybe) I've tried following too old/unapplicable advice. And since I spent a couple of hours compiling that post already, I didn't have the energy to put into modifying the post, so it would work without URLs.

Anyways, waited out the quarantine period, - and now the full post, including URLs, is in the OP.

(Apologies in advance for the link - I know people dislike third party sites, but unfortunately this forum doesn't allow this to be attached, as it is larger than 256 KiB - and doesn't allow inclusion via img BBcode tag either.)

So - is it impossible to get the mouse pointer on a Ubuntu LiveCD virtual guest, in such a way that it can be recorded? I mean if it is impossible, so be it - I'd just like to know...

The video starts with Ubuntu 18.04 as guest in VirtualBox, controlled by rdesktop.

While mouse integration is active in VirtualBox, even if the actual mouse is controlling rdesktop, there is no mouse pointer rendered in the VirtualBox Ubuntu LiveCD guest.

If I turn off mouse integration in VirtualBox, then when we have the actual host mouse pointer controlling via rdesktop - a mouse pointer appears rendered in the VirtualBox Ubuntu LiveCD guest. So this looks promising.

But if I do a Recording video capture in VirtualBox - there is still no mouse pointer in the video recording, even if the host mouse was controlling via rdesktop, and the VirtualBox Ubuntu LiveCD appeared to be rendering its "clone"!